Miyazawa Kenji was writing his poetry and fiction in an era of intense nationalism and military adventure. Japan celebrated victory in the Sino-Japanese war a year before he was born in 1896, setting ...

Miyazawa Kenji etched his name on Japan’s literary history with influential novels like Ginga tetsudō no yoru (trans. Night on the Galactic Railroad) and stories including “Chūmon no ōi ryōriten” ...

The Iwate Prefecture-born poet and writer Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is best-known for his story “Ginga Tetsudo no Yoru,” which has been published in English as “Milky Way Railroad” (translated by ...

"Haru to Shura" (Spring and Demon), "Kaze no Matasaburo" (Matasaburo of the Wind) and "Gusko Budori no Denki" (The Life of Budori Gusko) are just three of Kenji Miyazawa's (1896-1933) works, which I ...

'Strong in the Rain,” a classic Japanese poetry collection from Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1921), beautifully reveals much about both nature and humanity. Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems, by Kenji ...

In 1921, Miyazawa Kenji left a wealthy family and went to Tokyo. Standing on his own two feet, he lived there for 8 months. Late summer, Kenji received a telegram from his family. Worried about his ...

At the mere touch of cold philosophy? At the end he talks of unweaving the rainbow, science or philosophy destroying its beauty. Richard Dawkins used the phrase as the title of one of his books, and ...

Kenji Miyazawa's stories featuring talking birds and animals and the occasional human are enthrallingly lyrical and show the veiled Japanese sensibility that spawned them a century ago. Miyazawa, who ...